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No plastic, no meat: Oscars menu to be almost entirely plant-based and plastic-free, says Academy of Motion Pictures
- The announcement follows entirely plant-based menus at the Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild awards dinners earlier this month
- Menus for the annual lunch for Oscar nominees on Monday will be 100 per cent plant-based
Food at this year’s Oscar events will be almost entirely plant-based, the Academy of Motion Pictures has said, in line with other celebrity dinners during Hollywood’s 2020 awards season.
Menus for the annual lunch for Oscar nominees on Monday, as well as finger food served before the Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood on February 9, will be 100 per cent plant-based, the academy said.
The menu for the Governors Ball, a glitzy event held immediately after the Oscar ceremony, will be 70 per cent plant-based and 30 per cent vegetarian, fish and meat.
Plastic water bottles and other beverages in plastic containers will be eliminated from all Oscar events, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said in a statement.
The academy, whose 8,000 members choose the Oscar winners, said it was an “organisation of storytellers from around the world, and we owe our global membership a commitment to supporting the planet”.
The announcement follows entirely plant-based menus at the Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild awards dinners earlier this month for nominees, studio executives and guests.
Joker star Joaquin Phoenix, a strict vegan, suggested the change for the Golden Globes sit-down dinner, where the usual steak and fish was replaced with mushroom risotto and oyster mushroom scallops.
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